Adversity Quotations

"We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity."--Aesop's Fables

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."--Aristotle

"Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."--Francis Bacon

"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight."--Josh Billings

"You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load."--Bear Bryant

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."--Walt Disney

"There is no education like adversity."--Benjamin Disraeli

"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."--Henry Fielding

"In times of stress and adversity, itís always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something quite positive."--Lee Iacocca

"There is in every womanís heart a spark of heavenly fires, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."--Washington Irving

"Adversity is the foundation of virtue."--Japanese Proverb

"Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship, just as the cold winter forms ice-figures on the window panes which the warmth of the sun effaces."--SÝren Kierkegaard

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."--Abraham Lincoln

"Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come."--James Russell Lowell

"Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety."--Jack Nicklaus

"I never met with a single instance of adversity which I have not in the end seen was for my good-- I have never heard of a Christian on his deathbed complaining of his afflictions."--Alexander M. Proudfit

"We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths."--Pat Riley

"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.~ Albert Schweitzer

"Gold is tried in fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."--Seneca

"Sweet are the uses of adversity.""--William Shakespeare

"Case in point: Take adversity and make it an asset."--Donald Trump

"Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records."~ William A. Ward

"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph."--Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary, 1954

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."--Zig Ziglar

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"The block of granite which was an obstacle on the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong."